How Joe Davis Changed Snooker Forever
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Joe Davis played Snooker and Billiards on black and white. World Champion from 1927 147 century breaks and matches against Fred Davis. Break from Life shows how Joe Davis and his Snooker technique changed the way Snooker is played. Showing how Billiards slowly morphed into Snooker over the space of about 20 years.
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Great to see Billiards getting a mention, there’d be no Snooker without it !
I have an original copy of his book “How I play Snooker”. It was very specific about stance, bridges, theory etc. His chin alignment was slightly off to compensate for nearsightedness in one eye. His chapters on screw, stun and especially masse were revelatory. I love that book. Thank you for the stuff about walking into a shot. Interesting concept.
Ronnie’s mentioned that book a few times.
Nice video keep up the good work Abdullah from Baghdad Iraq 👌🏻
0:08 life wouldn't be half as fun without these mishaps. Greetings from Bologna, Italy.
Enjoying your videos from San Francisco, CA. Keep it up! I am a pool player but recently have been playing snooker whenever I get the chance. I hadn't heard of the sport until you popped up in my recommendations :) I hope to see some American snooker professionals in the future now that your videos are reaching me, it would be interesting to explain the lack of interest from our cue players thus far! I know we have bigger pockets and balls but something tells me that's not the only deterrent. Thank you and cheers!
My guess is cost a 12 ft by 6 ft snooker table costs a lot more than a pool table and needs a lot more room.
Agree with the last post great to see a bit billiards and a nice little input with your humourous attemp at nursery canons
Great vids and helps me improve my game! Watched almost all of them 😉 Andrew from Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦. Now living in London, UK 🇬🇧
Cracking channel and vids! Would love my own snooker table in my house, maybe one day lol keep the good stuff coming 😎🎱 Jordan, Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales
That break by Joe Davis was the best text book break I've seen it is the same as a straight pool break.
Love watching your snooker videos here in Columbus, Ohio. Home of The Ohio State University.
Great video! Love the history. 🙂 From Beloit, Kansas, USA!
Great video! We've featured it in an article about the great man! Thanks!
Love your videos, Ayden from Falkirk, Scotland
I’m actually up in Scotland this week, haven’t got my cue with me though
Some useful tips as always, thanks again, Adelaide, Australia
Love these vids. Hello from NYC.
Joe Davis was left eyed, which meant he had to stand over to the left in order to get that eye over the cue. That also meant he played with a ramrod straight left arm. Try standing that way and you'll see that its unavoidable.
In addition, he played with his cue arm INSIDE the vertical, not vertically. If you watch footage carefully you'll see his elbow drop as the cue goes through.
Indeed, all these points are addressed by Frank Callan in his teachings and his book, Frank Callans Snooker Clinic.
Steve Davis and his father Bill also recognised the flaws in Joes technique when Steve was learning the game back in the early 70s.
It is for these reasons that the modern game stems from Steve Davis rather than Joe. Steve was the first player to analyse and correct the "bible" which was Joe's book "How I Play Snooker". Until then, Joes word was law.
There have been no further improvements to the accepted technique since Steve Davis set the standard in the late 70s/early 80s. It is the best way to cue for an even sighted player. Joe was left eyed, and simply couldn't play that way.
All of this has been common knowledge for over thirty years.
Incidentally, Joe did not make the first maximum break of 147. He made the first officially recognised one in 1955.
The first maximum was in 1927.
I was going to add some of this information, so well done for beating me to it. Yes, influential book in which Joe acknowledged his adjustments due to eye weaknesses. And Steve Davis used that as a template from which he improved the general technique. But I think we have to give Joe a lot of credit for his analytical mind.
@@Muninman We'd have no modern game if it weren't for Joe Davis. I just want to tweak your wording in regard to the flaws in Joe's technique. With respect I think that idiosynchrosy might be a better word. If they were flaws then Joe wouldn't have been the player he was. Thanks for the info about the first max, I didn't know that. Do you know who made that break? When I Google it, I get conflicting information.
Hello from Hong Kong!! Love your videos!!
On Sat. afternoon tv in about 1963 he put the cue ball up on the top of the cushion, bottom right, sent the ball all round the table on top of the cushion finally falling into the hole where it started. I wish I knew how he did it.
Morning mate cheers for another Vid
Greetings from Wrocław!
Hello from Minas Gerais, Brazil
hello love ur channel love from isaac from qawra malta!
New snooker fan, and new sub from Madison, Wisconsin in the US! I have a problem with deflection, and am wondering what I can do to minimize this frustrating part of my game.
It depends if you mean you are striking the ball with sidespin intentionally or unintentionally. Either way finding the centre of the CueBall isn’t always straightforward
Good video content as usual (especially for those who don't know who Joe Davis was) with a dash of fun. :) Dont really get why 17 people don't like the video!
love your videos but a rail shot near those stacked boxes has to be a nightmare. I would move those boxes somewhere else.
Hi from Sydney, Australia!
I'm from Norway, Oslo
From Halifax West Yorkshire
Love from India
I want you to make video why sometime cue fumble while playing screw shots
Shout out from Oldham, Manchester?
Joe D.....Mr Snooker himself!!!
Swore like a trooper lol
This was very interesting, liked the one on Hendry too. I had no idea about the original billiards game but it looks like it's probably where 3 cushion comes from. Have you ever given that game a try?
Thanks for the great footage and tips ,useless bit of info but it looked like Bruce Forsythe in a few of the old clips.
It was nice to see him, to see him nice.
Nothing for a pair.
If you put me on the map could you say "yeehaw". I'm from Dallas Texas. Also thanks for your videos, they are super entertaining and very helpful even though I played American billiards.
5:49 affect
Im from malta!! :)
is this table in your garage?
Yes
Joe Davis was my dad's favorite snooker player
Favourite.
When I watched Joe Davis or Ronnie O'Sullivan play.. a Left Dominant Eye player but right handed.
In my case, I am a Right Dominant Eye player but left handed. When I place my cue under my right eye close to the chin with bended knees (low stance), I experience stress in my neck and back. This is my issue. :(
He made potting the grey ball look so easy
Some of the quotes from the commentary of these matches we’re brilliant like “ for those of you watching in black and white the pink is next to the green”
Hello from St. Petersburg, Russia ^_^
Still haven/t seen Kraków on your map :(
Thailand 💕
Wow, an extra orange ball worth 8 points, and a purple ball worth 10 points. Making the maximum break 15+(15*10)+45=210!
Yeah, that would've made maximums far less likely. Not in the first place because they're harder, but because...who in their right mind would constantly go up and down for the purple in ranked play, especially with a whole extra 8pt ball to use? Nobody would've even attempted it unless they were like, way way ahead in a match.
Lol hahah nice old school style
Say what you will, But I copied Steve Davis' stance, it was awkward at first but now it's the only way to play it did make my game go up a level, from C- to C Aha ha ha ...
Great old reel parody
If this guy was still around now day's playing in Steven Hendry and Ronnie time he would walk over Hendry and Ronnie
How high are you...change the intro and it will make perfect
Greetings from the worst snooker player in Rotterdam
I’m sure that’s not true
Why u don't play as a professional.
Loved this video and the previous video about Stephen Hendry
Maybe you could do one about Steve Davis or Ray Reardon
I have been looking getting into 3-ball billiards, with a 9-ball cue, this video has been great, I have skittles as well.
Really instructing vids. I'm from Bristol, England
I'd like to see some Snooker Plus sounds like it could be good!
I was waiting for this kind of video for ages! Thank you very much! Great stuff. Could you make a video about how rules changed game of snooker, finals lost that otherwise wouldn't and so on? Dusan from Belgrade, cheers mate!
I wish I could play snooker. I love it! But I have a sight issue so that when I see the cue perfectly straight and hitting the middle of the cueball, I am actually cueing across considerably to the left. I tried hard - and with Joe Davis's book as my guide in the early days, not realising that the harder I tried, the worse I would play! The sighting issue is so marked as to fairly consistently miss a straight blue across the table onto the left jaw. It took me 35 years to discover that sighting issue so it's too late now for change and improvement. I've hung my cue up - regretfully.
Found you last week and loved the video. Another great one. Subscribed now and loving the videos. Looking forward to what is to come.
Love you channel !! Josh from Irvine Kentucky.
Was that Bruce Forsyth in the straight arm demo?
It was. I think he managed to host pretty much every TV show at some point
Walter Lindrum the greatest billiard player that ever lived,absolute genius.
Joe Davis 15 worlds vs each of 2 8's 2 7's and 2 6's. How people can say that Joe Davis is not even in the picture in terms of the greatest is ridiculous.
Howdy from Perth Western Australia!! Love the videos...
WHERE did you get an orange and a purple snooker ball from???
Hi from Ipoh, malaysia!
I've got a purple and orange ball. Online, they're about £100, but I emailed Thurston and they had them for £7 or 8 each. Barely used them haha
I love this! Im from Redditch in Worcestershire
15 times world champion undefeated and never gets mentioned also his record should be on the list and Steven Henry should be second on list they should be chasing joe Davis record not like they ever will lol
Thanks for your comment Kamran .Joe was a great player, yet sadly he is forgotten most of the time.And he was my grand-father by the way
do one on Ronnie
So forget Hendrys record. Joe has won it 15 times.
Great video
just like the others :D
I'm watching you from Hungary. :)
hello how to pot balls on regulsr basis as i miss alot of simple balls plz reply im from pakistan ..
This might help ua-cam.com/video/C0n5IbKcGHo/v-deo.html
Love the Vid's mate!
Coming at you from Sunny South Shields ;)
Great snooker history class! Greetings from Zagreb Croatia
Hello from Pakistan.
Mention me on your pins in your next video.
Okay, I give up. What's in all those cardboard boxes?
Books I don’t know how to get rid of. Someone was selling them and I was storing them. Most got sold but then he died. So now I have about 3000 books I don’t know how to get rid of
@@Breakfromlife put 20 in the recycling bin every week.
You could put Chesterfield up on your map. Joe and Fred Davis both lived here when they were kids and had a snooker salon in the middle of town. Also, Mike Watterson who brought the snooker world championships to the Crucible in Sheffield lived here too and played snooker in the Chesterfield League. 👍👍
Joe Davis wrote the book "How I play snooker" but when you see footage of him actually playing he breaks every rule that he expected new players to observe. He lifts his head as he makes a shot and he rushes every shot when his cardinal rule was to slow down.
He was a long time world snooker champion at a time when hardly anybody played the game and very few understood the principles.
He did contribute to the popularity of the game but he wasn't in the same class as modern players such as Hendry, Trump, Osullivan and a host of other top line players.
To anybody who says that he was amongst the greats I would invite you to compare his stop start style with the smoothness we see in modern snooker. He wouldn't make the grade today.
I’m a young lad from Madrid Spain, honestly don’t know what to write, but it’d be cool to be in one of your vids. Keep up the good work!
I hate that record scratch sound because it meant you had to buy a new vinyl record. Tho tbf that's probably before your time.🤔
Do you reckon you could test the sight right? See if it helps at all
The reason why billiards fell out of favour is because its as boring as hell.
Joe Davis 15 worlds vs each of 2 8's 2 7's and 2 6's. How people can say that Joe Davis is not even in the picture in terms of the greatest is ridiculous.
Not relevant to anything but I knew a man who was an executive at Slazenger many years ago and he met all the big name sports personalities. He said they were all conceited jerks with one exception - Joe Davis who, he said was a really nice bloke
Great video again mate. Small idea not sure if you've done this before, but have you ever thought about making a video of escaping from the most difficult snookers from Masters and World Championship 19? Think this would be very entertaining
I read that Fred Davies only lost 5-1 in a pro match at the qge of 80 in the late 90s i think it was. Nuts how good they both were.
From Wisconsin in the USA and I gotta say I love these videos as a billiards player. Makes me appreciate snooker in a new light.
Long time snooker fan. This is one of the best snooker videos I have seen on youtube.
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Reardon would be a good one
Yeah and Alex Higgins although people have probably done enough on his life
No way! There's definitely an appetite for the Hurricane! He's probably as influencial as anyone else and there's certainly enough incredible footage.
What about Joe’s brother Fred Davies? He was a good player too!
Great vids. Now find me 🙂.. Dimapur, India
Great video. It helps a lot, Shamel from Dublin Ireland here
Wow, so the Golden ball wasn't a new idea after all!
Dylan Boston, Middlesbrough!
Love your videos a lot
. . . Love from india
at 3.23 joe does not deliver the cue in a straight line
Class videos, keep them coming please
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